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AgeUKIG47 Practical help and emotional support. Caring for someone with dementia. 2 We’d love to hear from you. 1) Join our Readers’ Panel. Have your say and be involved in updating our guides by joining ... story. Have you been affected by any of the issues in this guide? Has Age UK’s information and advice helped? If so, we’d love to hear from you to provide relatable examples that benefit others. Email your
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Toynbee Hall Provocation for AgeUK Roundtable: Later older age: how do you maintain control and stay financially included? “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” ... ” L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between Our research for the Payments Council in 2012 on the payment needs of the “Older Old”1 clearly showed that we travel into old age carrying the experiences and knowledge
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Care home volunteers are a helpful resource bringing many benefits to the quality of life for residents and staff. We’ve produced a set of approved documents and templates for busy care homes which can ... can be downloaded for use to recruit, train, and manage volunteers.
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right for me? It is never too late to start being more physically active. You can benefit from physical activity, whatever your age. The physical and mental effects from regular exercise can also help manage ... benefits are gained when you start taking part in regular physical activity even if you’ve been inactive for a while. You will notice the difference as soon as you begin. You don’t need to buy new or expensive
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Consultation response Draft Suicide and Self-harm Prevention Strategy 2024-2034 (Welsh Government) Question 1) To what extent do you agree with this vision? “People in Wales will live in communities ... to both seek and offer help when it is needed.” We agree that this vision offers a comprehensive and attainable target for this strategy. Question 1a) What are your reasons for your answer to question
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impact people’s brain health as they age with the goal of providing evidence-based recommendations for people to consider incorporating into their lives. We know that many people across the globe are interested ... met in Washington, DC to examine the impact of cognitively stimulating activities on brain health for adults age 50 and older. Throughout the discussion, experts examined the evidence on whether engaging
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home or hospital. This factsheet covers what deprivation of liberty means, the required procedure for authorisation, the procedures and protections required once someone has been deprived of their liberty ... about mental capacity is in factsheet 22, Arranging for someone to make decisions on your behalf. The information in this factsheet is correct for the period March 2024 to February 2025. The information
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parties may only reproduce this paper or parts of it for academic, educational or research purposes or where the prior consent of Age UK has been obtained for influencing or developing policy and practice. ... must be trustworthy and accessible through a truly independent source, with commercial opportunities for providers being tightly controlled. Pension Wise is providing a good service to users, but is experiencing
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Consultation Response Strategic Equality Objectives 2020 – 2024 Older People’s Commissioner for Wales February 2020 Introduction Age Cymru is the leading charity working to improve the lives of all ... provide a strong voice for all older people in Wales and to raise awareness of the issues of importance to them. We are pleased to respond to the Older People’s Commissioner for Wales’ consultation on
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people. Most of us have felt miserably and lonely at some point in our lives. For many, life moves on and the feelings pass. But for some loneliness becomes chronic, and it becomes increasingly difficult to ... cross-party Commission of MPs and charities to highlight the fact that we can all do something to help lonely people in our community. Following her tragic murder, the Commission has been taken forward
